Social media. It’s a pervasive and ever present fixture in our society these days. Everything from people taking pictures of every morsel of food that they eat and posting that on Facebook to every person who wants to get into political arguments on X (formerly Twitter). Social media is everywhere and, for many people, it’s the chronicle of everything that they do in their life.
With that being the case, though, it may make sense for you to think about what you can and what you should not post on social media. Should you post about your birthday party (sure, as long as you don’t look as drunk in the pictures as you actually were)? Should you post that you’re going on vacation (you should probably wait until you get back from vacation so that thieves don’t know that your home was empty for a week)? Should you post about how much you hate your job (not if you want that promotion)? Should you post about your guns?
And that last question is the big question for us today (since we’re a site about guns).
Of course, as is the case with so many things, there are mixed views on this question. Some people say, “I should be able to post whatever I want online!” And that’s true. We live in a free country (so we’re told). But what you post online can come back to bite you in a court of law. Just ask one January 6th defendant. Patricia Tolson writes,
An affidavit filed by the FBI special agent investigating Mr. Lang’s case said an Instagram video showed Mr. Lang being asked what he thought could happen next.
“Guns…That’s it,” Mr. Lang allegedly said. ”One word. The First Amendment didn’t work, we pull out the Second. We’re all civilized people and we love going to work and praying to God on Sundays and having nice family barbeques…and that was every single person there. No one wants to take this and die for our rights, but dying for our rights is the only option that any person with a logical brain sees right now. This is it.”
[Lang’s lawyer] Mr. Sabatini is convinced that Mr. Lang is not being held out of a belief that he would endanger the public, but because he’s being punished for being so vocal about the conditions to which he and his fellow Jan. 6 prisoners have been subjected.
Mr. Lang is outspoken, giving numerous media interviews in which he challenges some of the narratives being pushed about the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
You’ll notice that the quote from Lang could be interpreted to be advocating for the use for firearms to protect our rights from a tyrannical government, and that advocacy is what the government is using to “justify” keeping him in jail without trial for over 1,000 days.
What can you take from this?
Caution. You should take caution.
If you choose to post on social media about your guns, be careful not to advocate for violence against anyone or any institution. Why? Because it could come back to bite you by being used against you in court by corrupt prosecutors in the current administration.
Using caution on social media may be the difference between you being able to go home to your family at the end of the day instead of rotting in a jail cell waiting indefinitely for a chance to prove yourself innocent in court.
Think ahead and be smart about it.
We have a right to a speedy trial. Who is his lawyer and why is he not making a lot of noise about this? Same with the J6 political prisoners.
The DC courts and judges are corrupt.
Not all of them are dishonest but a lot are and they seem to think they are above the LAW and they are NOT.Remember all those in office or appointed are the EMPOLYEES NOT THE EMPLOYERS .WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE EMPLOYERS.BE ADVISED DC TYPES.
Social media has “rules” that deprive us of our rights.
If we do not put a stop to all this, we Are doomed we need to stand up for our right.
Right you are James.Most people are scared of titles but that’s all the are, just a title.I really don’t care about their titles because wether they like it or not they make the title stand for what they are and most seem to think that title makes them.I tell people now you know why our forefathers wrote there SECOND AMENDMENT.
The government actions taken against the J6 protesters have proven the protesters were right to protest and the government they were there to protest against has proven itself to be even more tyrannical than it was first thought to be. None of the prisoners have been judged by a jury. They have instead been judged by a handful of leaders in the democrat party. This is the tactics of Communist China, North Korea or in earlier times Nazi Germany or the USSR. This escalation of tyranny against American citizens will not end unless we elect Trump back into the White House. When that happens the biggest shakeup from the top down will have to take place. There is going to be a lot of people from high ranking positions looking for work and nobody is going to want them anywhere near their business or organization.
Right you are and they need to be reminded they are the employees not the employers.Trump showed up richer than the rest of them and can’t be bought off. That’s why we are seeing all the BS about Trump.